🚨🚨🚀 Nakamoto said work on writing Bitcoin code began in the second quarter of 2007. On August 18, 2008, he or a colleague registered the domain name bitcoin.org and created a website at that address. On October 31, Nakamoto published a white paper on the crypto mailing list at metzdowd.com describing a digital cryptocurrency, titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Payment System."

On January 9, 2009, Nakamoto released version 0.1 of the Bitcoin software on SourceForge and launched the network by setting the bitcoin genesis block (block number 0), which had a reward of 50 bitcoins. The text: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on the verge of a second bank bailout", quoting a headline from the British newspaper The Times published on that date, is embedded in the Coinbase transaction of this block . This note has been interpreted as both a timestamp and a mocking comment on the supposed instability caused by fractional reserve banking.#BitcoinHalvingDrama#BitcoinAwareness#BitcoinHistory#BitcoinHalvingMagic #btcnews99